As someone who's using this fantastic program to get mostly news programmes from the BBC, does anyone know if the 'get_iplayer --pid=' has a 'time' cap variable? Some news programmes are more than 4 hours long and I sometimes only want the first 30 minutes. I can't always record live.

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. It's very clear that multiple programs are necessary these days to achieve a simple goal of capturing the video/audio we want for a particular project and specific tutorials for such things overall are fairly limited unless you spend many hundreds of hours researching.. The pros with lot's of decent hardware and access to content like the top journalists and their teams are of course unwilling to share and promote their methods but we are very thankful for such assessable apps such as Get_iPlayer and hope this program's developers are taking notes of user feedback and continues to build/rebuild for the average user. Same bit rates for audio and frame rates for video notifications for example. Regards.